KECO wins award for excellence in sustainable development

The state-run Korea Environment Corp. won the International Green Apple Environment Award for the second consecutive year, KECO officials said Wednesday.

The company was announced as the bronze award winner in Asia by the London-based Green Organization, with an real-time online system that monitors air pollutants from smokestacks at industrial sites.

Named CleanSYS, the program collects data from installations on smokestacks and sends it to its control center. The corporation launched the system in 2002 to lessen the burden of manually collecting the data and to take action against an excessive pollution.

There are 1,451 CleanSYS systems installed at 562 companies in Korea, including power plant operators and manufacturers, as of 2012.

Last year, the company won an award in the EBI Social Contribution category with Allbaro, an automated online system for collecting, transporting and treating industrial waste.

The International Green Apple Environment Awards is an annual campaign to recognize environment-friendly organizations or companies. This year’s awards ceremony will be held at Parliament in London, U.K., on Nov. 12.

(monicasuk@heraldcorp.com)